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June 4, 2021
Kate Aronoff
United Airlines’ Supersonic Jet Is a Bad Idea
Like a lot of rich-people hobbies, bringing back really fast planes is dumb and helps wreck the planet.
June 3, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The Green New Dealers Propose Their Own Infrastructure Idea: Socialize Your Energy Bill
Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others are uniting behind a new resolution backing public electric power.
June 2, 2021
Nick Martin
The Biden White House Is Strangely Calm About Our Burning Planet
Jennifer Granholm, John Kerry, and the rest of the Biden climate team consistently downplay how much we need to do.
June 2, 2021
Toby Jaffe
Ron DeSantis Is the Depressing Future of “Climate-Friendly” Republicans
The 2022 Florida gubernatorial race is going to be a lesson in how to talk a lot about climate while doing nothing.
May 28, 2021
Ketan Joshi
The Surprise Court Ruling That Cut Through Shell’s Greenwashing Facade
A good P.R. team used to be enough to shield extractive industries from climate accountability. A recent court decision may signal a change.
May 24, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The Road to Decarbonization Is Littered With Dumb Lawsuits
The USMCA, which replaced Nafta, preserves fossil fuel companies’ right to sue any government that messes with their profits.
May 20, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Why Is Wall Street Profiting From Clean Energy Tax Credits?
Tax credits don’t give people money for solar panels and wind turbines up front. That’s where investors come in.
May 19, 2021
Jan Dutkiewicz
John Kerry Doesn’t Understand How Cows Work
Small tweaks to the meat industry can’t save Americans from a simple truth: We need to eat less meat.
May 18, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Even the International Energy Agency Thinks It’s Time to Stop Drilling New Oil Wells
The IEA was founded by Henry Kissinger. It’s not run by radicals.
May 18, 2021
Nick Martin
Meat Plants, Oil Pipelines, and the Ethical Tensions of Tribal Sovereignty
The pursuit of questionable economic projects by tribal nations offers the chance to think about what the end goals of sovereignty should, or even can, look like.
May 17, 2021
Colin Jerolmack
This Could Be the Start of a Rural Anti-Fracking Coalition
Landowners who lease their land to gas companies aren’t always pleased with the results.
May 14, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Republicans Are High on Colonial Pipeline’s Fumes
Hack or no hack, the GOP-to-fossil-fuel-industry pipeline is running just fine.
May 13, 2021
Nick Martin
The Incredibly Stupid, Entirely Avoidable Gas Panic of 2021
The Colonial Pipeline hack is a cry for better energy policy and regulation, not a reason to stampede gas stations.
May 13, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Giving Up on Economic Growth Could Make Us Cooler and Happier
Limitless GDP growth, even in rich countries, is baked into climate modeling. It shouldn’t be.
May 12, 2021
Nick Martin
Decolonize the Lithium Boom
Rhetoric about American energy independence has long been used to trample Indigenous rights. The new era of renewables should be different.
May 11, 2021
Eleanor Cummins
Listen Closely to the Cicadas. They’re Telling Us Something.
Periodical cicadas were born out of crisis. Now we’ve created a crisis they may not survive.
May 7, 2021
Nick Martin
Biden’s Conservation Plan Is a Historic Moment for America’s Indigenous People
The administration appears committed to tribal sovereignty and empowering Indian Country to help build a sustainable future.
May 7, 2021
Kate Aronoff
The World Is Waking Up to the Truth That Natural Gas Is Dirty
The U.N.’s new Global Methane Report throws cold water on a longtime fossil fuel industry talking point.
May 6, 2021
Kate Aronoff
BP’s Suspicious Support for a Carbon Market in Washington State
The oil giant owns a carbon sequestration company that could benefit from the law, allowing BP to play both sides of the emissions ledger.
May 6, 2021
Melody Schreiber
There’s Something Missing From Biden’s Move to Free the Covid Vaccines
Letting people copy Covid vaccines without being sued is good. Helping them do it is better.
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